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Has anyone else been had by these $#@!ers?

I bought a mobile phone online a long time ago (pre-iPhone which I've had for 18 months - reckon it was three years ago). I didn't sign up for insurance for it, but have been paying them £5.99 a month since then. Just spoke to them (a poor woman who is obviously used to getting arsey phonecalls for the same thing) and they say they give 3 months free, then take monthly payments automatically after that. Only it doesn't stop when your contract ends. It carries on.

Yes, it's also my own stupid fault for not checking my statements thoroughly (plenty of insurance policies come out of my account, most of which are my wife's so I never thought to check) but what a bunch of thieving quimbeciles.

2 lessons to be learned:

1. If you get a mobile via the internet be VERY careful and read the small print (another point - this isn't 'small' print - it's bloody minuscule print...)

2. Keep a close eye on what comes out of your account. I thought I was careful. Evidently not.

"The trouble with quotes on the internet is that it's difficult to determine whether or not they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln

A lot of phone related contracts seem to work in the same way, at the end of whatever the fixed term they go onto a monthly recurring contract. I allowed my phone contract to do so a few years back while I was looking for a new phone and the insurance carried on with it too.

If the phone was still worth anything you could've said you'd lost it to get a replacement before you cancelled the policy and then just sold it on to cover some of your loss.

or you started talking about a similar incident that happened to the 5th Doctor and how he had to do battle with his insurance that involved travelling through time and space, fighting some blokes in crap costumes and to shut you up they offered you a full refund.

or you started talking about a similar incident that happened to the 5th Doctor and how he had to do battle with his insurance that involved travelling through time and space, fighting some blokes in crap costumes and to shut you up they offered you a full refund.

Either way, it worked.

Anyway, Peter Davison's Doctor wouldn't have bothered to chase up any query with an insurance company. He was a bit too soft to get confrontational. The 6th Doctor would as he was a lot more shouty.

"The trouble with quotes on the internet is that it's difficult to determine whether or not they are genuine" - Abraham Lincoln